Dave’s brother, Chris, and his family from Idaho are here visiting this week. We’ve had such a nice time with them. Their son, BJB, is awesome and so cute. Chris’s wife, Angela, is a Creative Memories Consultant and makes the prettiest albums. Angela asked if we could have a day of “scrapping” while she was visiting so Angela, me and another sister-in-law, Lisa, got together here at our house for the day. We had a great time chatting, oh, yeah and scrapping…

Last Sunday, Dave and I hosted his parent’s, his brother Steve’s family and Chris’s family for a cook out. We had a great time together. That was the first time we’d hosted a bigger family get together and it went perfectly. There are four of us sister-in-laws (married to the four boys) and since I’ve been part of the family we never really had any opportunities to chat with one another by ourselves. We had time this visit and we had so much fun together…it was really a great visit.

Poor Chris has been plagued with awful allergies and now a backache this week so I don’t think he’s had as much fun as his wife. Both Chris and Angela have enjoyed the New England weather since it is so much drier out there than here. We have had nice cool days and a really good rain storm.

Maybe Friday Dave and I will take Chris & co down to the coast for a seafood dinner. Living in Idaho, they don’t exactly get to a coast very frequently. Dave says that we don’t actually live “on the coast”, but being a former Midwesterner myself…if it takes less than an hour to get to an ocean…you live “on the coast”.